Issues / 2005 / Nov 10
ArtListings
ArtListings
Links to galleries within this section: Back Porch Fabrics | Carmel Art Association | Carmel Foundation | Center for Photographic Art | Chapman Gallery | Coast Gallery | Concepts Carmel | Exotic Fine Art | ...
Simple Sauces
Three ways to celebrate the end of tomato season.
Caprese—made with ripe, just-picked tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, garden basil and spendy olive oil—is one of life’s simple, perfect luxuries. But I’m tired of it. I’m tired of thick slices of heirloom tomato on my sandwiches; ...
News Briefs
Salinas’ Lights Off It appears Salinas’ Holiday Parade of Lights has become a victim of its own success. According to Luis Alvarez, president of the Oldtown Salinas Association that has run the popular holiday event ...
October was bad for the world and everyone in it—especially the president of the United States.
Even though last month provided us with a fair amount of devastating natural disasters, war, incompetence, fear, sickness, deceased civil rights leaders, corruption and mediocrity, I believe the tone was truly set by the makers ...
Victors say the governor’s special-election defeat signals his doom.
Election night was young. Any results you could hang your hat on were least a couple of hours away. But John Ferrington, a teacher at Gavilan View Middle School, was already in full-tilt party mode. ...
Rock Life for Sale
Local bandleader offers up the contents of his garage to appease the music gods.
Keith Bruecker says he wrote his best songs while homeless. “I didn’t have anything to do all day except write music,” he says. “I slept in the bed of my truck with my musical instruments ...
Life and Death and Fine Dining
Life and Death and Fine Dining
HEAVENLY RESERVATIONS… The only way I can start this column this week is by acknowledging the passing of one of our venerable eating institutions, the OLD BATH HOUSE, in Pacific Grove. On Nov. 6, after ...
Squidfry
BAD DREAM, PART II…Squid’s had a recurring nightmare since squidolescence. Squid is falling, all twisting tentacles in the wind, from this sparkling 14-story building that doesn’t exist. Well, Squid hadn’t had that nightmare for years. ...
Second Act
Camper Van Beethoven continues three-year reunion tour in Monterey.
Even though Camper Van Beethoven would eventually become one of the biggest underground rock acts of the late ‘80s, and helped start the whole indie rock thing, singer/guitarist David Lowery and his bandmates did not ...
Victory for V
Salinas leaders celebrate a big win—finally.
The polls had just closed Tuesday night when Mayor Anna Caballero made her way across the parking lot of Chapala Restaurant in Salinas. She adjusted her wine-colored suit jacket and flashed an uneasy grin. “I’m ...
The Waiting Game
Based on the bestselling memoir,
With Jarhead, the director of American Beauty has adapted Anthony Swofford’s 2003 bestseller about his maddening stint with the Marines during the first Gulf war into an equally maddening movie that portrays Our Boys as ...
FILM: World in Motion
International documentary festival offers global inspiration.
Courage and hope arrive this weekend in the visage of the late Sergio Vierra de Mello, the charismatic UN humanitarian who spearheaded miraculous recoveries in places like post-Khmer Rogue Cambodia and civil-war-stricken Mozambique. The same ...
HOMEPAGE: Image Makers
Faux-finish artists make any wall look like a fantasy-come-true.
Lisa Haas-Cappuccio’s got a fancy name, a fancy van and a fancy job, but comes off like a gal you could sit down and have a beer or two with. Haas-Cappuccio, a decorative painter based ...
Supes Subvert Referendum
Voters reject Measure C; supervisors allow development anyway.
Voters overwhelmingly rejected the huge Rancho San Juan development on Nov. 8. But their vote may not mean anything. Less than 24 hours earlier, Monterey County Supervisors voted 4-1 to approve Butterfly Village, a 671-acre ...
Instant History
Playback brings actual Salinas Stories to the stage.
An audience member stands up and tells a personal story from her life. A group of actors standing on stage improvise it. Drama doesn’t get more spontaneous, immediate and simple than this. It’s Playback Theatre, ...
Smoke on the Water
Big-wave towsurfing will become a thing of the past if jet skis are banned in the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary.
Consider the following four portraits of the jet ski in Monterey County waters: • A jet ski tows a surfer into a 50-foot wave at Ghost Tree, the mysto-death wave off Pescadero Point in Pebble ...
Public water supporters soldier on, and vow to keep fighting Cal Am.
As the poll numbers scrolling across the bottom of the TV screen showed Measure W losing by a wide margin, the NBC weight-loss reality show The Biggest Loser filled the remainder of the picture. The ...
Letters
DROUGHT IS NOT FUNNY Does the Weekly think that our vulnerability to a drought is a laughing matter? [“The Heroic Tale of Measure W,” Oct. 20-26]. While portraying people as superheroes in their cartoon, the ...
DiscSpace
FATLIP | Theloneliest Punk | Tasty Vinyl After more than five years of hiatus, former Pharcyde MC Fatlip is back, seeking his redemption with his long-awaited solo debut, Theloneliest Punk. Despite the years gone by ...
TheaterListings
Links to theater/stage organizations within this section: | CET & Indoor Forest Theater | MPC Drama Dept. | MoCo Theatre Alliance | Pacfic Rep | Unicorn Theatre | theater opening | The Cherry Orchard Opens ...
Quite a Catch
Noah Baumbach’s exceptional The Squid and the Whale examines a dysfunctional New York family.
The opening line lays it all out on the table: “It’s Mom and me versus you and Dad.” Young Frank (Owen Kline) is merely delineating sides for a family game of tennis, but when that ...
Street Talk
Smack Down!: Asked at Moss Landing
Q: If you were a WWE wrestler, what would be your name and story?Follow-up: Who would be your nemesis?Justin Yannone Chef | Aromas A: The Oaf. I was created by mad scientists, went bad, and ...
